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As with the instructions for assembling furniture, you might find it helpful to read all this advice start to finish before you embark on these applications — to be prepared for any bumps you might encounter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Three tips to making applying for benefits after a layoff easier\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Your local government may have staff to help you do this\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cities and counties have their own offices, staff or programs specifically designed for people in your situation right now — which often have physical offices you can visit, or hotlines to call to ask a person your questions. 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It’s their job to help you — let them do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Your city or county may also have a program to help you find new employment, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/jobs/jobsnow\">SFHSA’s free JobsNOW! program\u003c/a>, which is open to San Francisco job seekers based on their income level, and matches job hunters with roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/county-offices\">Find your local social services office in this statewide list.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Don’t feel weird about claiming the benefits you’re owed\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to claiming benefits after a layoff, Ellison wants to remind you that “we all pay for this through our taxes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s great that if you don’t need it, it’s there. 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EDD also warns that it will verify your immigration status and work authorization through the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/UI-Calculator/\">calculate the amount of unemployment benefits you can receive using this tool\u003c/a>. Remember that the amount of unemployment you’ll receive is based on your wages over the last 18 months, calculated by EDD from a base period of 12 months within that time — and if you didn’t earn any wages during that period, you won’t qualify for unemployment benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/FAQ_-_Eligibility/\">See the EDD’s FAQ on who’s eligible to claim unemployment insurance.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gather your application information\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During your online application for UI, you’ll be asked to submit a lot of information — and it’s easiest to have all that gathered and ready, rather than trying to track it down in the middle of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to your basic identity information, you’ll need:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Your Social Security number\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your employment authorization information, if you’re not a U.S. citizen\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A photo ID like a passport or driver’s license (for your ID.me account — more below)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You’ll also need to provide your employment history for the last 18 months, which will include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The names of your previous employers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their addresses\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their phone numbers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The reason each job ended\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your gross (total) wages earned\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hours worked per week\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hourly rate of pay\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946480\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946480 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at her kitchen table and sifts through documents, looking concerned. Next to her is her opened laptop.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During your online application for UI, you’ll be asked to submit a lot of information — and it’s easiest to have all that gathered and ready, rather than trying to track it down in the middle of the process. \u003ccite>(MoMo Productions/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Make the online accounts you’ll need to apply \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To apply for UI for the first time, you’ll need to \u003ca href=\"https://portal.edd.ca.gov/WebApp/Registration\">create a new Benefit Programs Online account\u003c/a>, to enable you to log in and manage your UI claim. (You may already have one of these accounts if you’ve previously applied for UI, disability insurance or paid family leave — in that case, use the same one.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you give an email address as part of your Benefit Programs Online application, make sure you check for any emails from EDD. When you get an email with a link to complete your registration, make sure you click that link within 48 hours of receiving it — otherwise, you’ll have to start the registration process all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you’ve created your Benefit Programs Online account, \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/ui_online/\">you’ll then register for UI Online\u003c/a>, which is the part of EDD’s online services that allows you to claim and manage your unemployment benefits. Keep reading for how to file your first UI claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll \u003ci>also\u003c/i> need to \u003ca href=\"https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/articles/202673924-Creating-your-ID-me-account\">have an account with ID.me\u003c/a>, the identity verification EDD uses to make sure you’re really you when you’re claiming benefits. You can create your ID.me account before you create your Benefit Programs Online account, or when prompted during the process of creating it. If you’re creating your ID.me account beforehand, just make sure you keep the login details on hand so that you can sign into ID.me when prompted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might consider watching the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moJ1mokMRgc\">EDD’s short instructional video on YouTube about creating these accounts and filing your first UI claim\u003c/a>, so you know what to expect during the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>File your new UI claim\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big thing: To start using UI Online, you’ll be asked for your “EDD Customer Account Number.” This is a number that’s unique to you, that you can also give instead of your Social Security number on the phone when speaking with an EDD representative. You should receive this number at the preferred email address you gave to EDD — in which case you can start using that EDD Customer Account Number immediately to register for UI Online. It’s also possible to \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/create-account/\">receive this number via mail “10 days after you file your claim,” says EDD\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To file a new claim, \u003ca href=\"https://portal.edd.ca.gov/WebApp/Login?resource_url=https:%2F%2Fportal.edd.ca.gov%2FWebApp%2FHome\">log into your Benefit Programs Online account\u003c/a>, and under “UI Online” select “File New Claim.” Remember you’ll also be asked to briefly sign in to your ID.me account to verify your identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can’t apply with UI Online 24/7, unfortunately — \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/ui_online/\">the site has hours of operation\u003c/a> (located on the File and Manage Account tab), which EDD says are currently (all times Pacific Standard Time):\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sunday: 5 a.m.–8:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Monday: 4 a.m.–10 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tuesday–Friday: 2 a.m.–10 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Saturday: 2 a.m.–8 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you need to pause during the UI Online application process, you can hit “Save as draft” to save your application to return to later — unless it’s \u003ci>after \u003c/i>8 p.m. on the Saturday of the week you’ve started the application. If it’s after 8 p.m. on Saturday, or you’re doing this on a Sunday, you won’t be able to save your application, and you will have to start it all over again if you exit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re having issues with UI Online, \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/ui_online/\">EDD recommends that you call their help line\u003c/a> at (833) 978-2511 and select option 1 after the introduction, available 8 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday through Friday. EDD says that Monday morning before 10 a.m. is their busiest call time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Getting — and keeping — your unemployment benefits\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once your application is complete, be aware of \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/After_You_Filed/\">the next steps and further information that EDD will ask of you\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD says that \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/After_You_Filed/\">it “takes at least three weeks to process a claim\u003c/a> for unemployment benefits and issue payment to most eligible workers.” You’ll receive a debit card in the mail, which you can activate and then use to access your payments. If you have an old debit card from a previous UI claim, you can still use that one unless it’s expired (in which case you’ll be sent a new one).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep receiving UI after you first apply, you’ll have to certify for your unemployment benefits again every two weeks to continue receiving payments. You can do this online, by phone or through the mail, but EDD says you’ll get your payments faster if you certify online — and you’ll also get email reminders this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of this certification process every two weeks, you’ll have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_RgeoPH_g\">attest that you’re actively seeking employment\u003c/a>. This requirement was paused during the pandemic, but has since been reinstated. You’ll also need to \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/jobs_and_training/Caljobs/\">register for CalJOBS and post your resume to the site\u003c/a> to keep receiving your UI benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you start doing any work again after losing your job, it’s very important that you report those earnings when you certify for your UI benefits — because those wages have to be deducted from your unemployment benefits. \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/FAQ-claims/#:~:text=Can%20I%20still%20collect%20benefits,deducted%20from%20your%20unemployment%20payments.\">Read more on how EDD will adjust your UI if you start earning money again while claiming unemployment benefits.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re lucky enough to find a new full-time job, EDD is clear: “If you return to work full time, you will no longer be eligible for unemployment benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/certify/\">See EDD’s FAQ on certifying your UI claim every two weeks.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"healthinsurance\">\u003c/a>Step 2: Address your health insurance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your health insurance was tied to your employment, you need to act swiftly to ensure you’ll still have access to health care after your job ends. The option that’s best for you after your employment ends will depend primarily on how much income your household will now be receiving after you stop working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that if you’ve applied for unemployment benefits, \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/unemployed/\">you’ll need to declare that unemployment compensation as income\u003c/a> when applying for health insurance plans. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/income-and-household-information/income/\">Get advice on how to estimate your income on your application.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>First, check with your employer on when your health benefits will \u003ci>actually\u003c/i> end.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes a severance package will offer a holdover of benefits, advises the San Francisco’s Human Services Agency’s Bart Ellison. Ask very specific questions of your human resources team, if you have one, about when the last day of your health care will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>See if you can go on a family member’s health care.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing your health care because of a job loss will likely qualify as a special enrollment period for joining a family member’s plan, if eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a domestic partner, you may be eligible to join their plan. If you’re under 26 years old, \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/young-adults/children-under-26/\">you may be able to join a parent’s plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945872\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11945872 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/pexels-cottonbro-studio-4778412.jpg\" alt=\"A person with medium-toned skin sits at a wooden table writing on a notepad, surrounded by books. They are wearing a gray t-shirt and have tattooed forearms. We can't see their face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/pexels-cottonbro-studio-4778412.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/pexels-cottonbro-studio-4778412-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/pexels-cottonbro-studio-4778412-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/pexels-cottonbro-studio-4778412-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/pexels-cottonbro-studio-4778412-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Applying for benefits you’re entitled to can be a time-consuming process. \u003ccite>(cottonbro studio/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Medi-Cal\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal is California’s version of Medicaid, which offers health care to lower-income folks throughout the state. Eligibility is assessed by your household income, and for many people who qualify, there is no cost of getting health care through Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws passed in the last few years in California mean that \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Pages/youngadultexp.aspx\">undocumented people age 25 or under\u003c/a> and also \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Pages/OlderAdultExpansion.aspx\">undocumented adults age 50 and over\u003c/a> are now eligible to receive Medi-Cal, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Covered California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/unemployed/\">Medi-Cal has no limited enrollment period\u003c/a> — you can sign up at any time of year if eligible, including if you’ve lost your job. If your children previously were getting health care through your employer’s plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.insurekidsnow.gov/coverage/ca/index.html\">Medi-Cal — or the Children’s Health Insurance Program — may be able to cover them now\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Pages/Medi-CalFAQs2014a.aspx#1\">See the state’s FAQ about Medi-Cal.\u003c/a> Medi-Cal and Covered California use the same application portal at \u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/apply/\">coveredca.com/apply\u003c/a>. Fill out your details, and the site will tell you whether your household income makes you eligible for Medi-Cal or whether you have to choose a private plan from Covered California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Covered California\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California is the state’s marketplace that offers private health insurance plans. Depending on your household income, you may qualify for a free or low-cost health plan through Covered California — or you may be eligible to receive financial help through Covered California that could help cover the costs of your premiums and co-pays. As with Medi-Cal, your household income is going to determine what you’re eligible for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving your job for any reason and subsequently \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/unemployed/\">losing your job-based health coverage qualifies for a special enrollment period\u003c/a> for signing up for a marketplace health plan. Usually, you’ll get 60 days from the day you lose your coverage to sign up for a health plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Pages/Medi-CalFAQs2014c.aspx#1\">See the state’s FAQ about Covered California.\u003c/a> Remember, Covered California uses the same application portal as Medi-Cal at \u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/apply/\">coveredca.com/apply\u003c/a>. Fill out your details, and the site will tell you whether your household income makes you eligible for Medi-Cal or whether you have to choose a private plan from Covered California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>COBRA\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COBRA stands for the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act — and it’s a way of temporarily keeping health care after you leave a job. Instead of opting to sign up for Medi-Cal or a private health insurance plan through Covered California, you can choose so-called “continuation coverage” of your existing health care plan under COBRA, for a certain period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Programs-and-Initiatives/Other-Insurance-Protections/cobra_qna\">Health care through COBRA can be applied retroactively\u003c/a>, if you’re unsure about electing it straightaway. The catch: COBRA is expensive, because it’s the health plan your employer was previously paying part or all of — and now, you’re paying all the costs yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Getting back onto health insurance taking a while? Know where your nearest community health center is.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you aren’t eligible for coverage through Medi-Cal, but signing up for another health plan is proving challenging right now, you can get low-cost health care at a nearby community health center. Make sure you know where your nearest one is, in case you need access to health care quickly. You can \u003ca href=\"https://findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov/\">use this map to find the closest community health center near you\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>More resources on finding health care after losing your job:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/marketing-blog/health-insurance-for-the-unemployed-from-cobra-to-medi-cal/\">Health Insurance for the Unemployed, from COBRA to Medi-Cal\u003c/a>” (from coveredca.com)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/unemployed/\">Health coverage options if you’re unemployed\u003c/a>” (from healthcare.gov)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"otherbenefits\">\u003c/a>Step 3: Don’t forget about other benefits you could be entitled to\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The quickest way to see what benefits you might be eligible for now is to \u003ca href=\"https://benefitscal.com/ApplyForBenefits/ABOVR\">do one application through the state’s BenefitsCal portal\u003c/a>. This site will review your information and tell you what you may qualify for, including Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state says this application will take you between 30 minutes and an hour, and if you make an account you can save your progress and return to the application later, rather than having to start again. One catch: Not all counties in California are using this portal yet. \u003ca href=\"https://benefitscal.com/ApplyForBenefits/ABOVR\">Select your county from the drop-down menu\u003c/a> to see whether you have to use another site — \u003ca href=\"https://www.mybenefitscalwin.org/\">mybenefitscalwin.org\u003c/a> — instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other benefits you could be entitled to may include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CalFresh (SNAP)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalFresh is the state’s version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the food benefits program also known as “food stamps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11943420\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-1020x680.jpg\"]According to the state’s data from March 2023, over 3 million households use these funds to ensure they have access to food. You can \u003ca href=\"https://benefitscal.com/ApplyForBenefits/ABOVR\">apply through benefitscal.com\u003c/a>, which will also show you all other benefits you’re entitled to, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.getcalfresh.org/\">go direct through getcalfresh.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CalWORKs (California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have at least one child in your home, CalWORKs is a public assistance program that offers cash aid and services to eligible families. \u003ca href=\"https://benefitscal.com/\">See if your family is eligible to receive CalWORKs at benefitscal.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>WIC (Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WIC provides food assistance to lower-income families who have young children or are expecting a new child. Like CalFresh, it’s federally funded, and you can receive WIC benefits on top of your CalFresh benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is income-based, and is available to pregnant people, plus new parents and grandparents of young children.\u003ca href=\"https://myfamily.wic.ca.gov/Home/HowCanIGetWIC#howToGetWIC\"> See whether you’re eligible for WIC and apply online.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure to read the rest of our KQED guides about other steps you can take after a layoff to better support yourself and those who depend on you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949801/layoffs-how-to-find-a-new-job-jobhunting-tips\">The Best Ways to Find a New Job, According to an Expert\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949674/layoffs-mental-health-lost-job-self-care\">How to Prioritize Your Mental Health After Losing Your Job, From Telling Family to Self-Care\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948895/layoffs-how-to-save-more-money-after-losing-your-job\">How to Save More Money After Losing Your Job\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on May 19, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A lot of people also just don’t know about the benefits they could be eligible for, says Ellison, or assume they won’t qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also says that some of the eligible job seekers he and his team work with in San Francisco might fear coming forward to apply if a member of their family is undocumented, because they think it will cause them problems. “We don’t get involved in any of that,” said Ellison. “They should never fear that situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Try to be patient with how long the application process could take\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellison says he and his team “try not to ask a client for documents that we know we already have in the system” — but concedes that sometimes, this process will feel like providing endless documentation. The benefits you’re applying for can be a mix of federal and state funds, so unfortunately “it’s not just as simple as coming in and saying, ‘Hi, I’m Bart, could you sign me up?,’” said Ellison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more you can follow through with any documentation requests, hopefully the faster and smoother your application process will go. “And if you need more time or need help gathering stuff, that is what the eligibility staff are there for,” said Ellison. “They are there to \u003ci>help \u003c/i>you find some of these things. So you just need to kind of be your own advocate, and speak up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Read more layoff advice in our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/what-to-do-after-a-layoff\">What to Do After a Layoff \u003c/a>series\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"unemploymentbenefits\">\u003c/a>Step 1: Apply for unemployment benefits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been laid off, \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/apply/\">apply for unemployment insurance\u003c/a> (UI, also known just as “unemployment”) from the California Employment Development Department (EDD) as soon as you can. Not only could it take at least three weeks to receive any benefits payments from a successful claim, but your claim begins when you first apply for it — not the day you lose your job. So time is of the essence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Who can claim unemployment benefits?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re reading this and you \u003ci>chose\u003c/i> to leave your job, you usually aren’t eligible to claim unemployment. The exception to this is if you quit your job for what EDD calls “good cause,” which can include unsafe working conditions or a doctor’s advice. Whether or not you’re eligible to still claim UI in this situation will be determined by a phone interview with an EDD representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When applying for UI, you’ll have to show EDD that you have earned enough wages during the base period of 12 months, are totally or partially unemployed, are “unemployed through no fault of your own,” are physically able to work, are available for work and are ready and willing to accept work immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD will also ask you to show that you are “in satisfactory immigration status and authorized to work in the United States” not only now, but when you were earning the wages you’re using to establish your claim. EDD also warns that it will verify your immigration status and work authorization through the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/UI-Calculator/\">calculate the amount of unemployment benefits you can receive using this tool\u003c/a>. Remember that the amount of unemployment you’ll receive is based on your wages over the last 18 months, calculated by EDD from a base period of 12 months within that time — and if you didn’t earn any wages during that period, you won’t qualify for unemployment benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/FAQ_-_Eligibility/\">See the EDD’s FAQ on who’s eligible to claim unemployment insurance.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gather your application information\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During your online application for UI, you’ll be asked to submit a lot of information — and it’s easiest to have all that gathered and ready, rather than trying to track it down in the middle of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to your basic identity information, you’ll need:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Your Social Security number\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your employment authorization information, if you’re not a U.S. citizen\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A photo ID like a passport or driver’s license (for your ID.me account — more below)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You’ll also need to provide your employment history for the last 18 months, which will include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The names of your previous employers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their addresses\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their phone numbers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The reason each job ended\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your gross (total) wages earned\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hours worked per week\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hourly rate of pay\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946480\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946480 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at her kitchen table and sifts through documents, looking concerned. Next to her is her opened laptop.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During your online application for UI, you’ll be asked to submit a lot of information — and it’s easiest to have all that gathered and ready, rather than trying to track it down in the middle of the process. \u003ccite>(MoMo Productions/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Make the online accounts you’ll need to apply \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To apply for UI for the first time, you’ll need to \u003ca href=\"https://portal.edd.ca.gov/WebApp/Registration\">create a new Benefit Programs Online account\u003c/a>, to enable you to log in and manage your UI claim. (You may already have one of these accounts if you’ve previously applied for UI, disability insurance or paid family leave — in that case, use the same one.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you give an email address as part of your Benefit Programs Online application, make sure you check for any emails from EDD. When you get an email with a link to complete your registration, make sure you click that link within 48 hours of receiving it — otherwise, you’ll have to start the registration process all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you’ve created your Benefit Programs Online account, \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/ui_online/\">you’ll then register for UI Online\u003c/a>, which is the part of EDD’s online services that allows you to claim and manage your unemployment benefits. Keep reading for how to file your first UI claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll \u003ci>also\u003c/i> need to \u003ca href=\"https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/articles/202673924-Creating-your-ID-me-account\">have an account with ID.me\u003c/a>, the identity verification EDD uses to make sure you’re really you when you’re claiming benefits. You can create your ID.me account before you create your Benefit Programs Online account, or when prompted during the process of creating it. If you’re creating your ID.me account beforehand, just make sure you keep the login details on hand so that you can sign into ID.me when prompted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might consider watching the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moJ1mokMRgc\">EDD’s short instructional video on YouTube about creating these accounts and filing your first UI claim\u003c/a>, so you know what to expect during the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>File your new UI claim\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big thing: To start using UI Online, you’ll be asked for your “EDD Customer Account Number.” This is a number that’s unique to you, that you can also give instead of your Social Security number on the phone when speaking with an EDD representative. You should receive this number at the preferred email address you gave to EDD — in which case you can start using that EDD Customer Account Number immediately to register for UI Online. It’s also possible to \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/create-account/\">receive this number via mail “10 days after you file your claim,” says EDD\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To file a new claim, \u003ca href=\"https://portal.edd.ca.gov/WebApp/Login?resource_url=https:%2F%2Fportal.edd.ca.gov%2FWebApp%2FHome\">log into your Benefit Programs Online account\u003c/a>, and under “UI Online” select “File New Claim.” Remember you’ll also be asked to briefly sign in to your ID.me account to verify your identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can’t apply with UI Online 24/7, unfortunately — \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/ui_online/\">the site has hours of operation\u003c/a> (located on the File and Manage Account tab), which EDD says are currently (all times Pacific Standard Time):\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sunday: 5 a.m.–8:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Monday: 4 a.m.–10 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tuesday–Friday: 2 a.m.–10 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Saturday: 2 a.m.–8 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you need to pause during the UI Online application process, you can hit “Save as draft” to save your application to return to later — unless it’s \u003ci>after \u003c/i>8 p.m. on the Saturday of the week you’ve started the application. If it’s after 8 p.m. on Saturday, or you’re doing this on a Sunday, you won’t be able to save your application, and you will have to start it all over again if you exit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re having issues with UI Online, \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/ui_online/\">EDD recommends that you call their help line\u003c/a> at (833) 978-2511 and select option 1 after the introduction, available 8 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday through Friday. EDD says that Monday morning before 10 a.m. is their busiest call time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Getting — and keeping — your unemployment benefits\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once your application is complete, be aware of \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/After_You_Filed/\">the next steps and further information that EDD will ask of you\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD says that \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/After_You_Filed/\">it “takes at least three weeks to process a claim\u003c/a> for unemployment benefits and issue payment to most eligible workers.” You’ll receive a debit card in the mail, which you can activate and then use to access your payments. If you have an old debit card from a previous UI claim, you can still use that one unless it’s expired (in which case you’ll be sent a new one).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep receiving UI after you first apply, you’ll have to certify for your unemployment benefits again every two weeks to continue receiving payments. You can do this online, by phone or through the mail, but EDD says you’ll get your payments faster if you certify online — and you’ll also get email reminders this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of this certification process every two weeks, you’ll have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_RgeoPH_g\">attest that you’re actively seeking employment\u003c/a>. This requirement was paused during the pandemic, but has since been reinstated. You’ll also need to \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/jobs_and_training/Caljobs/\">register for CalJOBS and post your resume to the site\u003c/a> to keep receiving your UI benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you start doing any work again after losing your job, it’s very important that you report those earnings when you certify for your UI benefits — because those wages have to be deducted from your unemployment benefits. \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/FAQ-claims/#:~:text=Can%20I%20still%20collect%20benefits,deducted%20from%20your%20unemployment%20payments.\">Read more on how EDD will adjust your UI if you start earning money again while claiming unemployment benefits.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re lucky enough to find a new full-time job, EDD is clear: “If you return to work full time, you will no longer be eligible for unemployment benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/unemployment/certify/\">See EDD’s FAQ on certifying your UI claim every two weeks.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"healthinsurance\">\u003c/a>Step 2: Address your health insurance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your health insurance was tied to your employment, you need to act swiftly to ensure you’ll still have access to health care after your job ends. The option that’s best for you after your employment ends will depend primarily on how much income your household will now be receiving after you stop working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that if you’ve applied for unemployment benefits, \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/unemployed/\">you’ll need to declare that unemployment compensation as income\u003c/a> when applying for health insurance plans. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/income-and-household-information/income/\">Get advice on how to estimate your income on your application.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>First, check with your employer on when your health benefits will \u003ci>actually\u003c/i> end.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes a severance package will offer a holdover of benefits, advises the San Francisco’s Human Services Agency’s Bart Ellison. Ask very specific questions of your human resources team, if you have one, about when the last day of your health care will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>See if you can go on a family member’s health care.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing your health care because of a job loss will likely qualify as a special enrollment period for joining a family member’s plan, if eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a domestic partner, you may be eligible to join their plan. If you’re under 26 years old, \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/young-adults/children-under-26/\">you may be able to join a parent’s plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945872\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11945872 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/pexels-cottonbro-studio-4778412.jpg\" alt=\"A person with medium-toned skin sits at a wooden table writing on a notepad, surrounded by books. They are wearing a gray t-shirt and have tattooed forearms. We can't see their face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/pexels-cottonbro-studio-4778412.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/pexels-cottonbro-studio-4778412-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/pexels-cottonbro-studio-4778412-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/pexels-cottonbro-studio-4778412-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/pexels-cottonbro-studio-4778412-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Applying for benefits you’re entitled to can be a time-consuming process. \u003ccite>(cottonbro studio/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Medi-Cal\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal is California’s version of Medicaid, which offers health care to lower-income folks throughout the state. Eligibility is assessed by your household income, and for many people who qualify, there is no cost of getting health care through Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws passed in the last few years in California mean that \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Pages/youngadultexp.aspx\">undocumented people age 25 or under\u003c/a> and also \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Pages/OlderAdultExpansion.aspx\">undocumented adults age 50 and over\u003c/a> are now eligible to receive Medi-Cal, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Covered California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/unemployed/\">Medi-Cal has no limited enrollment period\u003c/a> — you can sign up at any time of year if eligible, including if you’ve lost your job. If your children previously were getting health care through your employer’s plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.insurekidsnow.gov/coverage/ca/index.html\">Medi-Cal — or the Children’s Health Insurance Program — may be able to cover them now\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Pages/Medi-CalFAQs2014a.aspx#1\">See the state’s FAQ about Medi-Cal.\u003c/a> Medi-Cal and Covered California use the same application portal at \u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/apply/\">coveredca.com/apply\u003c/a>. Fill out your details, and the site will tell you whether your household income makes you eligible for Medi-Cal or whether you have to choose a private plan from Covered California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Covered California\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California is the state’s marketplace that offers private health insurance plans. Depending on your household income, you may qualify for a free or low-cost health plan through Covered California — or you may be eligible to receive financial help through Covered California that could help cover the costs of your premiums and co-pays. As with Medi-Cal, your household income is going to determine what you’re eligible for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving your job for any reason and subsequently \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/unemployed/\">losing your job-based health coverage qualifies for a special enrollment period\u003c/a> for signing up for a marketplace health plan. Usually, you’ll get 60 days from the day you lose your coverage to sign up for a health plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Pages/Medi-CalFAQs2014c.aspx#1\">See the state’s FAQ about Covered California.\u003c/a> Remember, Covered California uses the same application portal as Medi-Cal at \u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/apply/\">coveredca.com/apply\u003c/a>. Fill out your details, and the site will tell you whether your household income makes you eligible for Medi-Cal or whether you have to choose a private plan from Covered California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>COBRA\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COBRA stands for the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act — and it’s a way of temporarily keeping health care after you leave a job. Instead of opting to sign up for Medi-Cal or a private health insurance plan through Covered California, you can choose so-called “continuation coverage” of your existing health care plan under COBRA, for a certain period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Programs-and-Initiatives/Other-Insurance-Protections/cobra_qna\">Health care through COBRA can be applied retroactively\u003c/a>, if you’re unsure about electing it straightaway. The catch: COBRA is expensive, because it’s the health plan your employer was previously paying part or all of — and now, you’re paying all the costs yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Getting back onto health insurance taking a while? Know where your nearest community health center is.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you aren’t eligible for coverage through Medi-Cal, but signing up for another health plan is proving challenging right now, you can get low-cost health care at a nearby community health center. Make sure you know where your nearest one is, in case you need access to health care quickly. You can \u003ca href=\"https://findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov/\">use this map to find the closest community health center near you\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>More resources on finding health care after losing your job:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/marketing-blog/health-insurance-for-the-unemployed-from-cobra-to-medi-cal/\">Health Insurance for the Unemployed, from COBRA to Medi-Cal\u003c/a>” (from coveredca.com)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/unemployed/\">Health coverage options if you’re unemployed\u003c/a>” (from healthcare.gov)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"otherbenefits\">\u003c/a>Step 3: Don’t forget about other benefits you could be entitled to\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The quickest way to see what benefits you might be eligible for now is to \u003ca href=\"https://benefitscal.com/ApplyForBenefits/ABOVR\">do one application through the state’s BenefitsCal portal\u003c/a>. 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KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara takes us to Tuesday’s strike at SF State, where faculty and staff say they’re fed up with working conditions, low pay, and looming job cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5061237772&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted. California State University faculty held a series of one day strikes this past week across four campuses, including here in the bay at San Francisco State. The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians and counselors, says that without better pay and smaller classes, the quality of students education suffers. And at San Francisco State, workers are particularly upset as the university also plans to cut hundreds of jobs and classes next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>We are the engine of this, you know, university. University consists of faculty and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, the Cal State faculty strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>On Tuesday, I went to San Francisco State University’s campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Juan Carlos Lara is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>SF State is one of four CSU campuses that was participating in this series of single day strikes this week provided by the union. So it started with Cal Poly Pomona on Monday, SF State was Tuesday. Then that was followed by CSU, L.A. and Sacramento State was the last day. I’d say the mood was very energized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>There were a few hundred people there for the strike. There was a lot of anger and frustration around the stalling in negotiations. But people also seemed pretty hopeful that something productive would come of their collective action, that they could pressure the university to make more movement at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, tell me a little bit more about who exactly is on strike across these four campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>So this strike was held by the California Faculty Association, which represents some 29,000 faculty across the CSU’s 23 campuses. So that would be professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches. Mm hmm. And joining the CFA on strike for these four days was actually the Teamsters Union, which represents about 1100 skilled trades workers on those campuses. So they have their separate negotiations, but they joined in solidarity for these four days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And why are CSU faculty striking right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, the big thing is, as usual, you know, salary the lowest paid lecturers in the CSU make about 50 4k. So they’re trying to raise that floor to 64. And they’re trying to get a 12% general salary increase for this year for 2023, 2024 school year. They argue that class sizes have been slowly increasing and that decreases the amount of time they’re able to give one on one attention to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>They are also hoping for a full semester of paid parental leave. There are also a few other things, like lactation centers on campuses that are accessible and gender neutral restrooms and other things. Negotiations between the CSU and the faculty union have kind of stalled. So they held these four days of strikes to kind of show the university that they were willing to hold work stoppages to get what they wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I know you had a chance to talk with some folks out there at the strike. What do faculty that you spoke with say about what it’s like to work for CSU right now and why they don’t feel like they’re getting what they deserve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>Across the board they’re cutting. So all the humanities courses have been cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Ali Kashani is a senior lecturer of political philosophy at SF State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>So if you’re lecturer faculty here, you’re you’re teaching more than two courses. You have a health care. So once you lose that job, you lose your health care automatically. So I think that’s a major impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>He was pretty upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>You know, we’re just barely going to be, you know, dealing with the inflation. It’s not like we’re not asking anything more. You know, we live in a very expensive area. So 12% is nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>He feels like more money is going towards administrators, campus presidents and chancellors who get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. While the people are actually teaching these courses and supporting students are kind of struggling to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>The chancellor, who’s the new chancellor, is making $1 million and all the other, you know, the president’s day. There is no problem giving those people raises. And when it comes to us, we are the engine of this, you know, university. University consists of faculty and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>And I talked to Blanca Misse, who’s an associate professor of French at SF State. They kind of talked about why faculty are so angry and riled up and we’re so ready for this strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blanca Misse: \u003c/strong>But the reason why it was not very hard to organize a strike at San Francisco State. I mean, it was a lot of organizing work, but it’s because the faculty were ready to go. Because when you’re losing 300 lecturer line faculty for next semester, people who’ve been working here for 20 years, when you see programs are being devastated, decimated students struggling to graduate. I mean, faculty get angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I want to talk about how CSU is responding so far. How has the university’s system administrators responded to these demands by faculty?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>University administrators have made some small movement, so they went from their initial proposal of a 4% salary increase for the year to 5%. They were initially suggesting that the salary increases take effect after the contract is signed. The unions pushing for that to be retroactive to the beginning of the year. But in general, the university administration hasn’t really made much movement on these demands. They kind of argue that they’re too expensive and that they can’t afford them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, I was going to say 5% offer compared to a 12% demand. I mean, that is a pretty big gap there between the CSU and its faculty. But why do administrators say that CSU doesn’t have enough money to pay these raises? What is their rationale there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Yeah, well, CSU administrators say that if they did agree to a 12% annual pay increase would result in like $380 million a year for them. That’s more than the annual budgets for some of their campuses. They also say that emergency funding that they were getting from the state during the first few years of the pandemic have gone away. The enrollment is kind of on the decline and that they don’t think that agreeing to these pay increases will be sustainable in the long term for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, why university administrators at San Francisco State say declining enrollment is going to make it hard for them to give faculty what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>At that point about declining enrollment is really interesting to me. I’m curious what we know about how CSU’s have been doing in terms of enrollment and what role is that really playing in all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>This year’s fall undergraduate enrollment for the CSU as a whole is about 6.5% lower than it was in 2019. Obviously, they took a hit at the start of the pandemic, but there hasn’t really seen a full recovery. And it seems like the anticipation is that it won’t be with California’s overall population being in slight decline and and people having kids at slightly slower rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>So I have a budget that I build based on two sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>I got to speak to the university’s president, Lynn Mahoney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>The state allocation, the tax dollars I get and then the tuition I collect from students. And that’s the money I can count on year after year. And that’s what I use to pay my employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>For San Francisco State. Those declines are even worse this year compared to 2019 for undergraduate enrollment has seen a 20% decline and the university says that it needs to adapt to that by making these substantive cuts. So they were looking at about 125 full time equivalent lecture positions and more than 600 classes to be cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>We’re down about 5 or 6000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Most lecturers aren’t full time. So the union estimates that that would be about more than 300 lecturers that would be laid off. Mahoney said that she understands, but she says tough decisions have to be made and that if enrollment continues to decline, the university has to adjust for that in its staffing levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>My role as a university president is to keep the university financially solvent. In the best interests of the graduation rates of our students. But I’ve got to keep it financially solvent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay. So CSU says they can’t afford these pay raises that the faculty are demanding. And on top of that, at San Francisco State, there’s also these looming job cuts because of enrollment decline. How is the union responding to those claims by the CSU and the university?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>The union hired its own financial analyst to look at the university’s finances. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted. California State University faculty held a series of one day strikes this past week across four campuses, including here in the bay at San Francisco State. The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians and counselors, says that without better pay and smaller classes, the quality of students education suffers. And at San Francisco State, workers are particularly upset as the university also plans to cut hundreds of jobs and classes next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>We are the engine of this, you know, university. University consists of faculty and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, the Cal State faculty strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>On Tuesday, I went to San Francisco State University’s campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Juan Carlos Lara is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>SF State is one of four CSU campuses that was participating in this series of single day strikes this week provided by the union. So it started with Cal Poly Pomona on Monday, SF State was Tuesday. Then that was followed by CSU, L.A. and Sacramento State was the last day. I’d say the mood was very energized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>There were a few hundred people there for the strike. There was a lot of anger and frustration around the stalling in negotiations. But people also seemed pretty hopeful that something productive would come of their collective action, that they could pressure the university to make more movement at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, tell me a little bit more about who exactly is on strike across these four campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>So this strike was held by the California Faculty Association, which represents some 29,000 faculty across the CSU’s 23 campuses. So that would be professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches. Mm hmm. And joining the CFA on strike for these four days was actually the Teamsters Union, which represents about 1100 skilled trades workers on those campuses. So they have their separate negotiations, but they joined in solidarity for these four days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And why are CSU faculty striking right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, the big thing is, as usual, you know, salary the lowest paid lecturers in the CSU make about 50 4k. So they’re trying to raise that floor to 64. And they’re trying to get a 12% general salary increase for this year for 2023, 2024 school year. They argue that class sizes have been slowly increasing and that decreases the amount of time they’re able to give one on one attention to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>They are also hoping for a full semester of paid parental leave. There are also a few other things, like lactation centers on campuses that are accessible and gender neutral restrooms and other things. Negotiations between the CSU and the faculty union have kind of stalled. So they held these four days of strikes to kind of show the university that they were willing to hold work stoppages to get what they wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I know you had a chance to talk with some folks out there at the strike. What do faculty that you spoke with say about what it’s like to work for CSU right now and why they don’t feel like they’re getting what they deserve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>Across the board they’re cutting. So all the humanities courses have been cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Ali Kashani is a senior lecturer of political philosophy at SF State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>So if you’re lecturer faculty here, you’re you’re teaching more than two courses. You have a health care. So once you lose that job, you lose your health care automatically. So I think that’s a major impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>He was pretty upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>You know, we’re just barely going to be, you know, dealing with the inflation. It’s not like we’re not asking anything more. You know, we live in a very expensive area. So 12% is nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>He feels like more money is going towards administrators, campus presidents and chancellors who get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. While the people are actually teaching these courses and supporting students are kind of struggling to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>The chancellor, who’s the new chancellor, is making $1 million and all the other, you know, the president’s day. There is no problem giving those people raises. And when it comes to us, we are the engine of this, you know, university. University consists of faculty and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>And I talked to Blanca Misse, who’s an associate professor of French at SF State. They kind of talked about why faculty are so angry and riled up and we’re so ready for this strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blanca Misse: \u003c/strong>But the reason why it was not very hard to organize a strike at San Francisco State. I mean, it was a lot of organizing work, but it’s because the faculty were ready to go. Because when you’re losing 300 lecturer line faculty for next semester, people who’ve been working here for 20 years, when you see programs are being devastated, decimated students struggling to graduate. I mean, faculty get angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I want to talk about how CSU is responding so far. How has the university’s system administrators responded to these demands by faculty?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>University administrators have made some small movement, so they went from their initial proposal of a 4% salary increase for the year to 5%. They were initially suggesting that the salary increases take effect after the contract is signed. The unions pushing for that to be retroactive to the beginning of the year. But in general, the university administration hasn’t really made much movement on these demands. They kind of argue that they’re too expensive and that they can’t afford them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, I was going to say 5% offer compared to a 12% demand. I mean, that is a pretty big gap there between the CSU and its faculty. But why do administrators say that CSU doesn’t have enough money to pay these raises? What is their rationale there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Yeah, well, CSU administrators say that if they did agree to a 12% annual pay increase would result in like $380 million a year for them. That’s more than the annual budgets for some of their campuses. They also say that emergency funding that they were getting from the state during the first few years of the pandemic have gone away. The enrollment is kind of on the decline and that they don’t think that agreeing to these pay increases will be sustainable in the long term for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, why university administrators at San Francisco State say declining enrollment is going to make it hard for them to give faculty what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>At that point about declining enrollment is really interesting to me. I’m curious what we know about how CSU’s have been doing in terms of enrollment and what role is that really playing in all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>This year’s fall undergraduate enrollment for the CSU as a whole is about 6.5% lower than it was in 2019. Obviously, they took a hit at the start of the pandemic, but there hasn’t really seen a full recovery. And it seems like the anticipation is that it won’t be with California’s overall population being in slight decline and and people having kids at slightly slower rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>So I have a budget that I build based on two sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>I got to speak to the university’s president, Lynn Mahoney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>The state allocation, the tax dollars I get and then the tuition I collect from students. And that’s the money I can count on year after year. And that’s what I use to pay my employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>For San Francisco State. Those declines are even worse this year compared to 2019 for undergraduate enrollment has seen a 20% decline and the university says that it needs to adapt to that by making these substantive cuts. So they were looking at about 125 full time equivalent lecture positions and more than 600 classes to be cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>We’re down about 5 or 6000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Most lecturers aren’t full time. So the union estimates that that would be about more than 300 lecturers that would be laid off. Mahoney said that she understands, but she says tough decisions have to be made and that if enrollment continues to decline, the university has to adjust for that in its staffing levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>My role as a university president is to keep the university financially solvent. In the best interests of the graduation rates of our students. But I’ve got to keep it financially solvent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay. So CSU says they can’t afford these pay raises that the faculty are demanding. And on top of that, at San Francisco State, there’s also these looming job cuts because of enrollment decline. How is the union responding to those claims by the CSU and the university?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>The union hired its own financial analyst to look at the university’s finances. That analyst found that the university regularly has surpluses at the end of each year and that its reserves have been growing and are now in the range of $8 billion. So they don’t think that the university even needs to use its reserves to pay for these raises. They think that with the surpluses it sees every year, this is something they can accommodate. Of course, the university denies that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brad Erickson: \u003c/strong>They have been giving us a kind of gloom and doom financial narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>I spoke with Brad Erickson, who’s the president of the San Francisco State chapter of the faculty Union. He said the university is sort of has a history of not being transparent with its finances and that there look at future financial situations is usually more pessimistic and that it’s in their best interest to kind of keep costs down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brad Erickson: \u003c/strong>Last year was actually the best, the strongest financial year in the CSU and at San Francisco State. So I trust the independent accountant. And and at any rate, it puts a reasonable skepticism. For anyone watching this situation to be skeptical about management’s claims, about both the impact of enrollment decline and their real financial situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, you know, we’ve been talking about a series of one day strikes, but it doesn’t really sound like these issues are going to be resolved any time soon. So are we going to see more of these strikes? Juan Carlos?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>I think that’s entirely possible, if not likely. These four day strikes were planned as sort of a testing ground so that union officials could start gathering up their support. It’s notable that these strikes weren’t only attended by faculty of those respective campuses. Some faculty kind of went from around the area to the strike nearest them to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>The union was also sort of motivated by trying to avoid disruptions to students because, of course, we’re in December right now. Students are nearing their finals and the end of the term. So they were hoping that this would kind of push the union to come back to the table with more meaningful proposals. If it doesn’t, which it’s very likely it won’t, They’ll probably plan bigger strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blanca Misse: \u003c/strong>And it will not be for one day any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>So for Blanca said that they totally anticipate larger strikes going on for longer and covering more campuses and that in the spring, if there’s no movement at the bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blanca Misse: \u003c/strong>Table so they have a chance to do what they have to do, the CSU, but if they don’t do it, will give them another nudge with more strikes next semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What do you think this is all going to mean for students at the end of the day? Not just the strikes, but whatever comes out of these negotiations between faculty and the CSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>One of the lines that the faculty union has pushed a lot in these rallies and in these strikes is that faculty working conditions are student learning conditions. I think it’s fair to say that lower class sizes and better compensated faculty, which would translate to lower turnover, would be beneficial to students. So some of these gains could potentially mean. Students have more one on one time with their professors and they see less turnover in the professors that they have. But in the meantime, it might mean disruptions. The beginning of the spring semester might be marked by prolonged strikes, and obviously they won’t be having classes if that becomes the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Juan Carlos, thank you so much for taking the time to break this down. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara :\u003c/strong>Thank you so much for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Juan Carlos Lara, a reporter for KQED. This 25 minute conversation with Juan Carlos was cut down and edited by me. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape. Our senior editor is Alan Montecillo. Shout out as well to the rest of our podcast team here at KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That’s Jen Chien, our director of podcasts. Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager, Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer, and Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern, and Holly Kernan, our Chief Content Officer. If you aren’t already, make sure you are subscribed to the Bay so that you never miss a beat. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you so much for listening. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco State University faculty held a single-day strike on Tuesday, demanding significant pay increases, amid the looming threat of widespread layoffs and hundreds of class cuts across campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of faculty members, including professors, librarians, counselors and coaches, gathered on the campus alongside some of their students, holding signs and shouting chants as passing cars honked in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When education is under attack, what do we do?” one strike leader called out. “Stand up, fight back!” the crowd responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action is the second in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968948/thousands-of-cal-state-faculty-launch-rolling-1-day-walkouts-in-fight-for-higher-pay\">series of one-day strikes\u003c/a> at four California State University campuses this week, with Cal Poly Pomona faculty kicking things off on Monday. CSU Los Angeles faculty plan to strike on Wednesday, followed by Sacramento State faculty on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Faculty Association, which represents some 29,000 CSU employees, is demanding a retroactive 12% salary hike for the current academic year, more manageable workloads and an increase in parental leave — from six weeks to a full semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a baseball cap speaks into a microphone in front of a group of people in red shirts carry picket signs in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Toombs, president of the California Faculty Association, addresses SF State faculty members and supporters during Tuesday’s strike on campus. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The work stoppages come after months of fruitless negotiations between the union and university system administrators, who have held fast to their offer of a 5% increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And neither side accepted some of the key terms that an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968703/cal-state-faculty-plans-to-strike-as-officials-reject-a-12-salary-increase\">independent fact finder recommended last week\u003c/a> — including a 7% pay hike — in a final effort to avert a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanca Missé, an associate professor of French at SF State, blamed administrators for failing to seriously consider the union’s demands, noting that a 5% pay increase would not even cover inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to look at the facts of the cost of living, the cost of keeping faculty working in this institution because a lot of faculty are leaving because they cannot afford to live in the Bay Area anymore,” said Missé, who joined the campus picket line on Tuesday. “We have a high turnover of faculty, which in turn affects the quality of education for students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Leora Freedman, CSU’s vice chancellor for human resources, said that while the university system aims to pay its workers fairly and provide competitive benefits, it simply lacked the financial resources to accommodate the union’s demands.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"csu\"]“We recognize the need to increase compensation and are committed to doing so, but our financial commitments must be fiscally sustainable,” she said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State, more so than any other CSU campus, is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967471/sf-state-faculty-and-students-rally-against-layoffs-class-cuts-planned-for-spring\">facing the prospect of sweeping cuts\u003c/a>, with over 300 lecturers expected to be laid off in the spring and more than 650 classes on the chopping block following years of declining enrollment and a projected budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missé said that although the strike was not about the planned layoffs, that grim context helped mobilize faculty and students to show up on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re losing 300 lecture-line faculty, people who have been working here for 20 years, when you see programs being decimated, students struggling to graduate, people get angry,” Missé said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali Noorzad, a fourth-year history student who participated in Tuesday’s strike, said his education is directly dependent on the working conditions of his professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking at my class schedule, there’s classes I needed to take that I could not take because so many classes are cut because so many faculty have been cut,” Noorzad said. “Faculty are obviously the ones being most directly affected by [cuts], but you can see how this is affecting us as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of Teamsters Local 2010, which represents some 1,100 plumbers, electricians and other skilled trade workers in the CSU system, joined Tuesday’s strike in a show of solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people in red shirts carry picket signs in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, 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“The CSU has pushed us to this point where we have to stand up and we have to do something or they’re just going to walk all over us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For CSU faculty, the current three-year contract now under negotiation expires in the spring, at the end of this academic year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco State University faculty held a single-day strike on Tuesday, demanding significant pay increases, amid the looming threat of widespread layoffs and hundreds of class cuts across campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of faculty members, including professors, librarians, counselors and coaches, gathered on the campus alongside some of their students, holding signs and shouting chants as passing cars honked in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When education is under attack, what do we do?” one strike leader called out. “Stand up, fight back!” the crowd responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action is the second in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968948/thousands-of-cal-state-faculty-launch-rolling-1-day-walkouts-in-fight-for-higher-pay\">series of one-day strikes\u003c/a> at four California State University campuses this week, with Cal Poly Pomona faculty kicking things off on Monday. CSU Los Angeles faculty plan to strike on Wednesday, followed by Sacramento State faculty on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Faculty Association, which represents some 29,000 CSU employees, is demanding a retroactive 12% salary hike for the current academic year, more manageable workloads and an increase in parental leave — from six weeks to a full semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a baseball cap speaks into a microphone in front of a group of people in red shirts carry picket signs in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Toombs, president of the California Faculty Association, addresses SF State faculty members and supporters during Tuesday’s strike on campus. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The work stoppages come after months of fruitless negotiations between the union and university system administrators, who have held fast to their offer of a 5% increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And neither side accepted some of the key terms that an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968703/cal-state-faculty-plans-to-strike-as-officials-reject-a-12-salary-increase\">independent fact finder recommended last week\u003c/a> — including a 7% pay hike — in a final effort to avert a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanca Missé, an associate professor of French at SF State, blamed administrators for failing to seriously consider the union’s demands, noting that a 5% pay increase would not even cover inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We recognize the need to increase compensation and are committed to doing so, but our financial commitments must be fiscally sustainable,” she said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State, more so than any other CSU campus, is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967471/sf-state-faculty-and-students-rally-against-layoffs-class-cuts-planned-for-spring\">facing the prospect of sweeping cuts\u003c/a>, with over 300 lecturers expected to be laid off in the spring and more than 650 classes on the chopping block following years of declining enrollment and a projected budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missé said that although the strike was not about the planned layoffs, that grim context helped mobilize faculty and students to show up on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re losing 300 lecture-line faculty, people who have been working here for 20 years, when you see programs being decimated, students struggling to graduate, people get angry,” Missé said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali Noorzad, a fourth-year history student who participated in Tuesday’s strike, said his education is directly dependent on the working conditions of his professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking at my class schedule, there’s classes I needed to take that I could not take because so many classes are cut because so many faculty have been cut,” Noorzad said. “Faculty are obviously the ones being most directly affected by [cuts], but you can see how this is affecting us as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of Teamsters Local 2010, which represents some 1,100 plumbers, electricians and other skilled trade workers in the CSU system, joined Tuesday’s strike in a show of solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people in red shirts carry picket signs in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF State student Violet Street chants in support of faculty during Tuesday’s campus walkout. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always had crappy negotiating and bad contracts, and that’s why we’re here,” said David Hagstrom, the Teamsters Local 2010 chief steward, whose own union held a one-day strike last month after also failing to agree on a new contract with university administrators. “The CSU has pushed us to this point where we have to stand up and we have to do something or they’re just going to walk all over us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For CSU faculty, the current three-year contract now under negotiation expires in the spring, at the end of this academic year. So even if the two sides do reach a compromise, they will have to return to the negotiating table in a matter of months to face off over the next contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ali Kashani, a senior lecturer of political philosophy at SF State, said the prospect of that ongoing struggle doesn’t daunt him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are fed up. They want to have better living conditions, so we’re not afraid of that,” he said. “This is actually a good testing ground for us. We’re going to get ready, solidarity is going to be there, we’re going to actually get more militant for our next contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Street vendors in San Francisco’s Mission District are urging Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Hillary Ronen to postpone \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968298/sfs-mission-street-vending-ban-begins\">a street- vending ban \u003c/a>— that began on Monday — until after the holiday shopping season.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gladys Maigua, Mission street vendor\"]‘We’re hardworking, honest people. We’ve complied with all the laws, the requirements that the city has given us. This is our request: that we want to keep working this December.’[/pullquote]The \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/sites/default/files/Order208803.docx.pdf\">90-day rule\u003c/a>, which prohibits street vendors from selling goods within 300 feet of Mission Street between 14th and Cesar Chavez streets, marks the city’s latest attempt to crack down on illegal transactions, retail theft and violent crime near the neighborhood’s BART plazas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, at a rally on Monday afternoon, a group of street vendors and community advocates said the ban comes at the busiest time of the year and will be a major gut punch to the more than 100 permitted vendors in the neighborhood, most of whom are lower-income immigrants struggling to make a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working hard, without selling things that one shouldn’t be selling,” José Barajas, a permitted vendor who has been selling flowers in the Mission for more than 20 years and is part of the Mission Street Vendors Association, said in Spanish at Monday’s event. “We’re selling things the right way. They want to remove us because of other problems that we do not have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relocating even a block or two away from his usual spot near the 24th Street BART plaza could really hurt his sales, Barajas added. As he spoke, eight motorcycle police officers stood guard on that stretch of sidewalk, devoid of the street vendors that normally set up shop there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968473\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two police officers cross a busy intersection in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco police officers walk across Mission Street at 24th Street during a press conference held by the recently formed Mission Street Vendors Association in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2023, in opposition to the new temporary street-vending ban. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gladys Maigua, another Mission Street vendor who spoke at Monday’s rally, emphasized that December is the most important and profitable month for most vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hardworking, honest people. We’ve complied with all the laws, the requirements that the city has given us,” she said in Spanish. “This is our request: that we want to keep working this December.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three San Francisco Public Works department crews — each accompanied by two police officers — plan to monitor this stretch of Mission Street through Feb. 24 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Rachel Gordon, a spokesperson for the agency, said in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone found vending in the off-limits areas during those times will first be issued a verbal or written warning, with repeat offenders subject to potential fines ranging from $100 to $1,000, Gordon said. Inspectors also can impound the items being sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to disrupt the dangerous conditions around unpermitted vending and create a safer neighborhood for residents, small businesses, and our permitted street vendors,” Mayor London Breed said in a press announcement about the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the city also announced that space in two nearby marketplaces will be made available starting this week for permitted street vendors to sell their goods while the ban remains in effect. Tiangue Marketplace (on Mission Street between 17th and 18th streets) will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and La Placita (on 24th between Capp and Lilac streets) will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6 p.m., the city said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Mission-based nonprofits — Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, Clecha, and the Latino Task Force Resource Hub — will help oversee the temporary marketplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968476\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968476\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older Latina speaks in front of microphones at an outdoor event. Behind her is a small crowd of people, and pigeons flying above them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sofia Lopez, a permitted street vendor, speaks at Monday’s press event at the 24th Street BART plaza, on the first day of the temporary street-vending ban on Mission Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is paying about $150,000 per month to rent the two spaces, and marketplace stalls are free for permitted vendors, said Supervisor Ronen, a strong proponent of the ban, whose district includes most of the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen, who spoke at Monday’s rally, said multiple stalls at both marketplaces were still available and encouraged vendors to apply for them, adding that the city would consider opening a third site if more space is needed. She also urged people to do their holiday shopping at the new temporary sites, emphasizing that the program’s success will depend on community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, unlike most other speakers at the rally, she did not support postponing the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with vending on Mission Street is not these people behind me,” Ronen said, referring to the vendors at the rally. “The problem is that there is another element of stealing and selling stolen goods, and it has become dangerous here.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=news_11968298,news_11923790]Conditions have gotten so dangerous near the two Mission BART stations that Public Works employees now don bulletproof vests when checking for vending permits, Ronen said, noting that she receives daily calls and emails from her constituents imploring the city to crack down on illegal street activity in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite demands from vendors to stave off the ban until the new year, it’s highly unlikely the city will delay the plan now that it’s in effect. Ronen said that her office will meet with vendors and other city agencies to evaluate the impacts of the temporary ban and determine the next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office will also host a resource fair to help vendors with other entrepreneurship opportunities and provide additional immigration, health and housing support, Breed said in the press statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to support people who are trying to make a living and following our permits and guidelines, and these new spaces and support will do just that,” Breed said. “This is about helping the entire Mission community and making sure that merchants, residents, and City workers feel safe and that the neighborhood can thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB946&search_keywords=vendor\">decriminalized street vending in 2018\u003c/a>. But as complaints over sidewalk safety increased, San Francisco officials created a new system last year allowing vendors to apply for permits. \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/apply-street-vending-permit\">In the online application\u003c/a>, vendors must agree to only sell items that they have legitimately procured. In most cases, the city has waived the $430 application fee to encourage more participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white woman speaks into multiple microphones at an outside event, with a crowd of people standing behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen speaks during a press conference at 24th Street BART plaza in San Francisco on Monday, held by the newly formed Mission Street Vendors Association, about the new street-vending ban she supports. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In July 2022, before that permit process launched, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923790/the-fences-didnt-help-24th-street-mission-bart-vendors-brace-for-new-permit-system-amid-crackdown-on-sale-of-stolen-goods\">BART erected fences around the 24th Street BART Plaza\u003c/a> — over which it has jurisdiction — to steer vendors onto the sidewalk where Public Works employees could then cite and force them to move. The approach was met with fierce criticism from vendors and community members who said it did little to resolve issues of crime and stolen goods while making it harder to simply pass through the otherwise bustling, vibrant cultural center. Less than two months later, after protesters repeatedly tore down the fences, BART abandoned the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several months ago, in late September, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/new-barricades-erected-at-16th-st-bart-plaza-to-deter-vendors/\">BART erected similar temporary barricades\u003c/a> around the 16th Street BART plaza to deter street vending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Brown, 27, who grew up in San Francisco, said he has a street-vending permit to sell refurbished household items, which helps supplement his income as a desk clerk at a nursing home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a lot of anger because they made us get these permits, go downtown and fill out paperwork, and then blame everybody for the crime that’s happening,” Brown told KQED at Monday’s press event. “It’s just like all that work for nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/sites/default/files/Order208803.docx.pdf\">90-day rule\u003c/a>, which prohibits street vendors from selling goods within 300 feet of Mission Street between 14th and Cesar Chavez streets, marks the city’s latest attempt to crack down on illegal transactions, retail theft and violent crime near the neighborhood’s BART plazas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, at a rally on Monday afternoon, a group of street vendors and community advocates said the ban comes at the busiest time of the year and will be a major gut punch to the more than 100 permitted vendors in the neighborhood, most of whom are lower-income immigrants struggling to make a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working hard, without selling things that one shouldn’t be selling,” José Barajas, a permitted vendor who has been selling flowers in the Mission for more than 20 years and is part of the Mission Street Vendors Association, said in Spanish at Monday’s event. “We’re selling things the right way. They want to remove us because of other problems that we do not have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relocating even a block or two away from his usual spot near the 24th Street BART plaza could really hurt his sales, Barajas added. As he spoke, eight motorcycle police officers stood guard on that stretch of sidewalk, devoid of the street vendors that normally set up shop there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968473\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two police officers cross a busy intersection in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco police officers walk across Mission Street at 24th Street during a press conference held by the recently formed Mission Street Vendors Association in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2023, in opposition to the new temporary street-vending ban. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gladys Maigua, another Mission Street vendor who spoke at Monday’s rally, emphasized that December is the most important and profitable month for most vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hardworking, honest people. We’ve complied with all the laws, the requirements that the city has given us,” she said in Spanish. “This is our request: that we want to keep working this December.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three San Francisco Public Works department crews — each accompanied by two police officers — plan to monitor this stretch of Mission Street through Feb. 24 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Rachel Gordon, a spokesperson for the agency, said in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone found vending in the off-limits areas during those times will first be issued a verbal or written warning, with repeat offenders subject to potential fines ranging from $100 to $1,000, Gordon said. Inspectors also can impound the items being sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to disrupt the dangerous conditions around unpermitted vending and create a safer neighborhood for residents, small businesses, and our permitted street vendors,” Mayor London Breed said in a press announcement about the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the city also announced that space in two nearby marketplaces will be made available starting this week for permitted street vendors to sell their goods while the ban remains in effect. Tiangue Marketplace (on Mission Street between 17th and 18th streets) will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and La Placita (on 24th between Capp and Lilac streets) will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6 p.m., the city said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Mission-based nonprofits — Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, Clecha, and the Latino Task Force Resource Hub — will help oversee the temporary marketplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968476\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968476\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older Latina speaks in front of microphones at an outdoor event. Behind her is a small crowd of people, and pigeons flying above them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sofia Lopez, a permitted street vendor, speaks at Monday’s press event at the 24th Street BART plaza, on the first day of the temporary street-vending ban on Mission Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is paying about $150,000 per month to rent the two spaces, and marketplace stalls are free for permitted vendors, said Supervisor Ronen, a strong proponent of the ban, whose district includes most of the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen, who spoke at Monday’s rally, said multiple stalls at both marketplaces were still available and encouraged vendors to apply for them, adding that the city would consider opening a third site if more space is needed. She also urged people to do their holiday shopping at the new temporary sites, emphasizing that the program’s success will depend on community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, unlike most other speakers at the rally, she did not support postponing the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with vending on Mission Street is not these people behind me,” Ronen said, referring to the vendors at the rally. “The problem is that there is another element of stealing and selling stolen goods, and it has become dangerous here.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Conditions have gotten so dangerous near the two Mission BART stations that Public Works employees now don bulletproof vests when checking for vending permits, Ronen said, noting that she receives daily calls and emails from her constituents imploring the city to crack down on illegal street activity in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite demands from vendors to stave off the ban until the new year, it’s highly unlikely the city will delay the plan now that it’s in effect. Ronen said that her office will meet with vendors and other city agencies to evaluate the impacts of the temporary ban and determine the next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office will also host a resource fair to help vendors with other entrepreneurship opportunities and provide additional immigration, health and housing support, Breed said in the press statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to support people who are trying to make a living and following our permits and guidelines, and these new spaces and support will do just that,” Breed said. “This is about helping the entire Mission community and making sure that merchants, residents, and City workers feel safe and that the neighborhood can thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB946&search_keywords=vendor\">decriminalized street vending in 2018\u003c/a>. But as complaints over sidewalk safety increased, San Francisco officials created a new system last year allowing vendors to apply for permits. \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/apply-street-vending-permit\">In the online application\u003c/a>, vendors must agree to only sell items that they have legitimately procured. In most cases, the city has waived the $430 application fee to encourage more participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white woman speaks into multiple microphones at an outside event, with a crowd of people standing behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen speaks during a press conference at 24th Street BART plaza in San Francisco on Monday, held by the newly formed Mission Street Vendors Association, about the new street-vending ban she supports. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In July 2022, before that permit process launched, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923790/the-fences-didnt-help-24th-street-mission-bart-vendors-brace-for-new-permit-system-amid-crackdown-on-sale-of-stolen-goods\">BART erected fences around the 24th Street BART Plaza\u003c/a> — over which it has jurisdiction — to steer vendors onto the sidewalk where Public Works employees could then cite and force them to move. The approach was met with fierce criticism from vendors and community members who said it did little to resolve issues of crime and stolen goods while making it harder to simply pass through the otherwise bustling, vibrant cultural center. Less than two months later, after protesters repeatedly tore down the fences, BART abandoned the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several months ago, in late September, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/new-barricades-erected-at-16th-st-bart-plaza-to-deter-vendors/\">BART erected similar temporary barricades\u003c/a> around the 16th Street BART plaza to deter street vending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Brown, 27, who grew up in San Francisco, said he has a street-vending permit to sell refurbished household items, which helps supplement his income as a desk clerk at a nursing home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a lot of anger because they made us get these permits, go downtown and fill out paperwork, and then blame everybody for the crime that’s happening,” Brown told KQED at Monday’s press event. “It’s just like all that work for nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A 90-day ban on street vending on a section of San Francisco’s Mission Street goes into effect today. The ban extends along a large stretch of the corridor, anywhere within 300 feet of Mission Street, from 14th Street to Cesar Chavez Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is moving ahead with the plan, spearheaded by Supervisor Hillary Ronen, despite calls by some vendors to delay the ban. Vendors still selling goods on the street will be asked to move or risk having their items confiscated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, dozens of members of the recently formed Mission Street Vendors Association, a group of more than a hundred street vendors who sell on Mission Street, took to the 24th Street BART Plaza to call on the city to hold off on the ban until the new year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Deldelp Medina, co-president, Latinx Democratic Club\"]‘Safety does not equal the lack of vendors. Having a safety plan is what gains safety. Having people be economically viable is what creates safety.’[/pullquote]Allies of the vendors said the ban couldn’t come at a worse time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is deeply immoral and unconscionable to take away what for many folks is their only livelihood before the holidays,” said Kevin Ortiz, co-president of the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a community newsletter sent last month, Ronen said uncontrolled vending has created “measurable hazards,” and that she pulled together a group of city leaders to address the problem after learning that some people selling stolen goods on the street had threatened and assaulted Department of Public Works inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resulting \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/sites/default/files/Order208803.docx.pdf\">Public Works Order\u003c/a> banning all vending on the street is set to last for 90 days, although it may be extended if there are “objective health, safety, and welfare concerns.” \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/sites/default/files/Order208803.docx.pdf\">The order\u003c/a> directly links people who sell stolen goods with a rise in crime in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Illegal Vending and concerns that illegal Vending has caused the street conditions of the Mission Street Corridor to be worse than ever are common topics of discussion at community meetings, and the community members who attend these meetings routinely call for and support greater police action to make the Mission Street Corridor safer and more accessible for pedestrians;” the order states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deldelp Medina, the other co-president of the Latinx Democratic Club, challenged the idea that vendors cause crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety does not equal the lack of vendors. Having a safety plan is what gains safety. 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The ban would extend from Cesar Chavez Street to 14th Street on Mission Street, with some exceptions, and is set to begin on Nov. 27. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vendors also said the ban was an attempt to provide a blanket solution to a problem they have nothing to do with. With the passage of Senate Bill 946 in 2018, sidewalk vending was decriminalized in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Ronen] wants to take away the vendors in the Mission because she says vendors sell stolen items. We are not part of the problem,” said Sofia Lopez, who has sold Central American crafts in the Mission for the last eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez held a sheaf of papers aloft, showing the various permits she has acquired since 2015 to comply with city vending laws. In March 2022, the city expanded laws regulating vendors, requiring all vendors in the city to carry a permit. Permits for Mission Street recently expired and are not currently being renewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many people here today for the holidays,” Lopez said. “If we aren’t here, they are going to miss the products we sell. Our products aren’t sold in nearby stores. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#correction\">This story contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the seven years Lawrence Cox worked as an inmate in California state prisons, he washed kitchen dishes and pans and cleaned urinals and dormitories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox said he was never paid more than 18 cents an hour and was not paid at all for some work assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation then deducted about half of his meager earnings to cover court-imposed restitution fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Cox was eventually released last year, he was entitled under \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2007/pen/2700-2717.html\">state law\u003c/a> to collect $200, but received no additional compensation for his many years of labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like a lot of people, I got out with really nothing,” said Cox, 39. He said he was lucky to get financial help from loved ones, but it was still difficult for him to afford housing, transportation and other basic services as he tried to reestablish himself after serving time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/regulations/wp-content/uploads/sites/171/2023/10/NCR-23-11-Inmate-Pay-Rates-Schedules-and-Exceptions.pdf\">Under a recent CDCR proposal\u003c/a>, tens of thousands of incarcerated workers in state prisons would get marginal wage increases, but most would still earn well under $1 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls for doubling the minimum wage — from its current rate of just 8 cents an hour to 16 cents. Incarcerated people with the highest skill levels or in lead positions would earn as much as 74 cents an hour, up from 37 cents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is seeking public comment on the proposed changes through Nov. 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 39,000 incarcerated people have job assignments in state prisons, doing everything from construction and maintenance work to custodial, food and clerical services, among a host of other \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/202120220ACA3_Senate-Appropriations-4.pdf\">jobs\u003c/a>. Some also \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpia.ca.gov/about/\">manufacture\u003c/a> products like office furniture, license plates, cell phone equipment and eyewear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"prisons\"]More than 1,000 incarcerated firefighters across the state would also receive a pay hike. Under the new proposal, they would earn a maximum daily rate ranging between $5.80 to $10.24, about double their current daily rate of $2.90 to $5.13 — which includes an additional $1 per hour when battling active fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR said these wage increases would incentivize incarcerated workers to retain jobs that support their rehabilitation and would give them greater “buying power” for canteen hygiene and food items. It would also provide the state with more firefighting personnel, the agency noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the responsibility of CDCR to ensure its inmate population is treated with dignity and has the resources and skills needed to transition back to society. This responsibility extends to fair compensation for jobs performed while incarcerated,” CDCR said in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/regulations/wp-content/uploads/sites/171/2023/10/NCR-23-11-Inmate-Pay-Rates-Schedules-and-Exceptions.pdf\">notice\u003c/a> of the regulation changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased compensation will also help workers meet restitution-payment requirements for crime victims and save more money for after their release, Tessa Outhyse, a CDCR spokesperson, said in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed regulations would additionally eliminate all unpaid work assignments, Outhyse added, although it would also reduce a majority of full-time job assignments to half-time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CDCR values the contributions of its incarcerated workers and is committed to its mission to prepare people in its custody to successfully return to their communities,” Outhyse said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some living wage advocates have slammed CDCR’s proposed pay increases, calling them grossly insufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the \u003ca href=\"https://onefairwage.site/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CA_NeedsLivingWage_2304.pdf\">California Living Wage For All Coalition \u003c/a>have questioned how incarcerated people will make more money, even with a wage hike, if their total hours are cut. They also argue that subminimum wages contribute to recidivism, as incarcerated people are often released into abject poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s shameful,” said Cox, who now works as a policy and organizing associate at \u003ca href=\"https://prisonerswithchildren.org\">Legal Services for Prisoners with Children\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based nonprofit. “To continue the practice of exploiting individuals is just deplorable. An increase to 16 cents … I still can’t do anything with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s pay schedule for incarcerated workers has remained largely unchanged for the last 30 years. The state’s hourly pay rate is well below the national average, which was 39 cents in 2017, according to CDCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates argue the state has the ability to pay incarcerated workers higher wages. They point to the California Prison Industry Authority’s \u003ca href=\"https://jointventureprogram.calpia.ca.gov/workers-wages/\">Joint Venture Program\u003c/a>, which offers incarcerated workers comparable wages to those outside prison. The program boasts \u003ca href=\"https://jointventureprogram.calpia.ca.gov/benefits/\">a 9% recidivism rate\u003c/a>, drastically lower than for CDCR’s general population, although only 13 incarcerated workers are currently participating in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution forbids slavery and involuntary servitude except to punish crime. California’s law contains that \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/constitution/california/article-i/section-6/#:~:text=SEC.,prohibited%20except%20to%20punish%20crime.\">same exemption\u003c/a>, which allows CDCR to compel incarcerated people to work, regardless of the wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in several states, including Oregon and Alabama, recently approved measures removing\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-california-nevada-constitutions-cd220ed1abfd63c5971ee1394756c7e7\"> involuntary servitude\u003c/a> from their constitutions. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>More than 1,000 incarcerated firefighters across the state would also receive a pay hike. Under the new proposal, they would earn a maximum daily rate ranging between $5.80 to $10.24, about double their current daily rate of $2.90 to $5.13 — which includes an additional $1 per hour when battling active fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR said these wage increases would incentivize incarcerated workers to retain jobs that support their rehabilitation and would give them greater “buying power” for canteen hygiene and food items. It would also provide the state with more firefighting personnel, the agency noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the responsibility of CDCR to ensure its inmate population is treated with dignity and has the resources and skills needed to transition back to society. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dozens of San Francisco State University faculty members and students rallied on campus on Wednesday in opposition to widespread layoffs and class cuts anticipated this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://adminfin.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/UBC%20Presentation%20August%202023%20complete%20slideshow%20v2.1.pdf\">August presentation\u003c/a> to the university’s budget committee, administrators estimated they would need to cut the equivalent of 125 full-time positions and hundreds of classes by early 2024 to make up for a projected budget shortfall. The staff cuts would mostly impact lecturers and result in the layoff of about 325 of the university’s 1,084 largely part-time lecturers, according to the California Faculty Association, the union representing staff across the state’s CSU campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s devastating,” said Brad Erickson, a lecturer in the School of Liberal Studies and the SF State union chapter president. “It represents about 655 courses that won’t be taught. It represents slowing students’ path to graduation by not being able to get the courses they need. It also means increased workloads for the remaining faculty, who will be teaching more students in larger classes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juliana van Olphen, chair of the Department of Public Health, said students and faculty will bear the brunt of the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may say, ‘If I can’t take it this semester, then I’ll have to be here an extra semester… I need this to graduate,’” van Olphen said. “The university claims to be focused on student success, yet widespread cuts to classes and layoffs of our valued colleagues break our spirit and will have a devastating impact on student success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University officials said the cuts are in response to declining enrollment, which is a main contributor to the expected budget shortfall. Fall enrollment figures have fallen every year since 2018, and this year were roughly 20% lower than those in 2018. 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This represents really skewed priorities,” Erickson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967486\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-IMG_1844-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-IMG_1844-01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-IMG_1844-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-IMG_1844-01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-IMG_1844-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-IMG_1844-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Erickson, a lecturer in the School of Liberal Arts and SF State union chapter president, condemns what he calls a two-tier system that separates tenure-line faculty from lecturers. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahoney said the university and the union continued to disagree on the financial figures and pushed back on what she called the demonization of administrators. She added that the cuts are a means of adapting to a new baseline for the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the enrollment decline statewide and nationwide, we’ll never get to our old numbers, but we will eventually level off and then start to increase a little,” Mahoney said. “We’ve lost $36 million in tuition revenue, so we can’t keep spending money we don’t have. And the CSU has said that starting next year, they’re going to reduce our state allocation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11830384 label='SF State History']Erickson, the union chapter president, said any cuts could happen more gradually rather than the very dramatic cuts for next semester, which he said is causing chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to put up with this. This is not going to stand. There will be consequences,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ongoing budget crisis is also occurring as the union and CSU officials renegotiate their contract. Union members are pushing for 12% raises, while CSU officials have thus far only agreed to 5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials declared an impasse in negotiations in August, triggering the assignment of a mediator. After that failed to produce results, a fact-finding panel was assembled, including members of both sides and an impartial third party, to assess the latest proposals and issue recommended terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact-finding panel’s recommendations are expected to be released before the end of the month, according to union officials. They have also announced planned single-day strikes at four campuses across the state in early December if a deal is not reached before then. San Francisco State is one of the campuses planning to strike.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University officials said the cuts are in response to declining enrollment, which is a main contributor to the expected budget shortfall. Fall enrollment figures have fallen every year since 2018, and this year were roughly 20% lower than those in 2018. Across the California State University system, fall enrollment rates fell roughly 5% between 2018 and 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State President Lynn Mahoney noted similar declining enrollment rates across the nation and specifically among educational institutions in California amid changing demographic patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at the college-going-age population across California, it has shrunk. And when you look at where it has shrunk, it has largely shrunk in Northern California,” Mahoney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But union members at SF State contend that the planned cuts are not proportional to enrollment declines and said the university should instead look toward its administrative budget, which grew by roughly a third across the CSU between 2006 and 2018, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s one manager for every 100 students, but only one counselor for every 1,800 students. This represents really skewed priorities,” Erickson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967486\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-IMG_1844-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-IMG_1844-01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-IMG_1844-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-IMG_1844-01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-IMG_1844-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-IMG_1844-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Erickson, a lecturer in the School of Liberal Arts and SF State union chapter president, condemns what he calls a two-tier system that separates tenure-line faculty from lecturers. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahoney said the university and the union continued to disagree on the financial figures and pushed back on what she called the demonization of administrators. She added that the cuts are a means of adapting to a new baseline for the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the enrollment decline statewide and nationwide, we’ll never get to our old numbers, but we will eventually level off and then start to increase a little,” Mahoney said. “We’ve lost $36 million in tuition revenue, so we can’t keep spending money we don’t have. And the CSU has said that starting next year, they’re going to reduce our state allocation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And about 12% of young workers are heads of households, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young workers are overrepresented in households living below the poverty line compared to those over the age of 25. About 14% of young workers lived in poverty compared to 5% of older workers, according to the report. A third lived in households with incomes below 200% the federal poverty line. That number in 2021 was $53,000 for a family of four.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Working through school\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Along with responsibility for helping family members cover basic expenses, young people often have to balance work with education, in pursuit of a better future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of young workers go to school. and about 40% of them worked 15 to 29 hours a week, the report says. One-fourth of workers in high school, and more than half in college, worked 20 hours or more a week. 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Advocates say health plans routinely fail to ensure enough mental health providers accept their coverage, making patients wait too long before being seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: Last week, the Department of Managed Health Care unveiled news of a historic $200 million settlement with Kaiser Permanente for failing to provide patients with\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/10/kaiser-permanente-california-behavioral-health-settlement/\"> timely mental health appointments\u003c/a>, among other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such issues will take center stage on Wednesday at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/mental-health-and-addiction\">special oversight hearing\u003c/a> of the Senate Select Committee on Mental Health and Addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic state Sen. 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With Wiener’s law, they were finally triumphant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in January 2021, the state has required plans to pay for treatment of a much more extensive array of mental health issues, along with substance use disorder and addiction. This state law is separate from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/topics/managed-care-insurance/parity-law-resources\">federal mental health parity\u003c/a> law passed in 2008. The concept of “parity” refers to requiring insurers to treat mental and physical health conditions equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health plans say they “have been diligently working in good faith” to comply with these laws while facing industry-wide challenges like workforce shortages. 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And they, too, are concerned that it’s taking so long for the official rules to be decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, more than a dozen advocacy groups signed a letter of concern to the department, questioning its commitment to enforcing some aspects of\u003ca href=\"https://steinberginstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Comments-to-DMHC-on-BH-Investigations_DRAFT.pdf\"> the new state parity law\u003c/a>. The organizations want the department to publish and publicize its investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still a relatively secret process,” said Lauren Finke, a policy director at The Kennedy Forum, a national organization that cosponsored California’s parity legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser workers on strike in front of a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser workers strike in front of the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Department of Managed Health Care declined to make anyone available to speak with CalMatters until later this fall. In an email, a representative said the department “is committed to ensuring enrollees have appropriate access to behavioral health care when they need it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to advocates’ critiques that the department isn’t adequately analyzing and publicizing how well plans are complying with state parity law, the department said in a statement that it is evaluating health plans’ compliance in other ways; including that analysis in the behavioral health investigations would slow them down too much, the statement said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Meiram Bendat, attorney and psychotherapist, Santa Barbara\"]‘The historic network inadequacy around the state and the lack of meaningful fines, that’s a real failure on the part of the department.’[/pullquote] Meiram Bendat, a Santa Barbara attorney and psychotherapist who focuses on mental health parity, says that the three-year-old state law has improved patients’ ability to receive mental health care by creating a uniform definition of what is considered “medically necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to ensuring that health plans maintain adequate provider networks, he said, the department is “failing miserably.” Too often, plans offer their members only outdated lists of providers who then prove to be unavailable, Bendat said. 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[aside label='More on Around California' tag='california-law'] But Finke and others also said the settlement itself provides evidence of the department’s failures to enforce a previous \u003ca href=\"https://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/enfactions/docs/2895/1500394196511.pdf\">settlement agreement\u003c/a> with Kaiser from 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will DMHC do its job going forward? That’s the big question,” asked Fred Seavey, research director for the National Union of Healthcare Workers. 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